Product Designer

Compensation

$160k–190k base + meaningful equity

About Flint

The best education anyone has ever received is one person paying close attention to one student: moving at their pace, noticing what they missed, asking the next question at the right moment. But the current system is built around a compromise with one teacher managing thirty students. Flint exists to take that compromise off the table. Personalized learning, at the scale of a whole school — every student working with something closer to a tutor, and every teacher able to see what's actually happening across their class instead of guessing.

How We Work

We move fast, and closely. You'll work with a small, senior team: one Product Lead, a Chief of Staff (Product), a CTO, and five engineers. We also have a running joke that we can’t keep up with our #product_updates channel because of how much we ship. Fast and good aren't in tension here. In our experience the fastest route to something good is getting a rough version in front of a real teacher early, which tends to be quicker than getting it right in private.

What You'll Do

• Dig deep, validate, and design. Validate the user goals, map key journeys, and land on the actual jobs to be done.
• Explore broadly, then narrow. Iteration is key. For a complex UI, we'd expect five or six real concepts on the table before committing to one, whether it sketches, wireframes, AI-generated lo-fi, competitor and industry research…whatever gets you there fastest.
• Design zero to one, and one to a hundred. Some of this is a genuinely new problem where you shape the whole thing from scratch. Some of it is taking something we shipped early and making it scalable, coherent, and delightful in the way the first version never had time to be.
• Communicate your judgment effectively. You can clearly explain the context, intent, designs, and the reasoning behind your work to the rest of the team.
• Set the design bar. Our design system and design philosophy are still taking form. You'll decide what becomes a pattern, what stays a one-off, and where the whole thing goes from here.
• Stay through QA and impact. You'll have a say in what gets QA'd and in what metrics tell us whether the thing actually worked. Shipping isn't the end of your involvement.
• Impact hundreds of thousands of learners. How a generation learns to think alongside AI is being decided right now, in the products that get built this year. Very few designers get to work on something this consequential this early.

What We're Looking For

• You've designed and shipped real software.
• You can run the whole arc, from understanding the problem through concepts, hi-fi, and a spec engineering can build from.
• You're comfortable with being scrappy and being iterative.
• You're excited by building something that hasn't existed before and genuinely changes how people learn — not iterating on the margins of something that already works.
• You're here to learn, not just to apply what you already know.
• You find that range interesting rather than intimidating.
• You care about education. You should like what you are building and who you are building for!

What We Offer

• Meaningful equity.
• Health and dental insurance.
• Personal device stipend.

How to Apply

Message Sun with your resume and portfolio, or apply here.